Aspects in Contexts: Studies in the History of Psychology of ReligionJacob A. Belzen Psychology of religion has been enjoying considerable attention of late; the number of publications and people involved in the field is rapidly increasing. It is, however, one of the oldest branches within psychology in general, and one of the few in which an interdisciplinary approach has been kept alive and fostered. The fate of the field has been quite varied in the countries where psychology of religion has been initiated and developed during the 20th century. In this volume, some aspects of this international history are examined. Coming from six different Western countries, each of the contributors has a record in the historiography of psychology and profound knowledge of psychology of religion. Their approaches combine elements from the history of mentalities, the social history of science and biographical studies. The volume contains in-depth treatments of such topics as the growth of the field as reflected in university politics, developments within international organizations, and the personal involvement of contributors to the field. A wealth of information is provided on the background of the work of well known psychologists of religion like James Henry Leuba, Oskar Pfister, Gordon Allport, Werner Gruehn, Antoine Vergote and others. |
Contents
7 | |
25 | |
The Psychology of Religion at the Crossroads Oskar Pfisters | 45 |
On the Early Reception | 91 |
Gordon Allports pre1950 Writings on Religion | 129 |
Villiam Grønbaek and the Dorpat School Elements of | 173 |
The Failure of Second Naiveté Some Landmarks in the History | 235 |
The Identity of the Psychology of Religion A Swedish | 281 |
293 | |
Other editions - View all
Aspects in Contexts: Studies in the History of Psychology of Religion Jacob A. Belzen Limited preview - 2000 |
Aspects in Contexts: Studies in the History of Psychology of Religion Jacob A. Belzen No preview available - 2000 |
Common terms and phrases
Åkerberg Allport approach Arbeit Arbeiten Archiv für Religionspsychologie Bavinck belief Belzen Bergling Berlin Bolley Bouman Calvinist Catholic Christian church concept congress critical discipline dissertation Dorpat Dorpat School empirical experimental fact faith Free University Freud Fuglsang-Damgaard Geelkerken Gereformeerde Gesellschaft Girgensohn godsdienstpsychologie Grønbaek Gruehn guilt habe Herman Bavinck hermeneutical Hesnard Hildesheim historiography Hoekstra human individual interest Journal Jung Kampen Keilbach können Lacan lecture letter to Grønbaek Leuba Lund method moral München Nase Nathan Söderblom nature Netherlands Nørager object Oraison Original work published Oskar Pfister Oswald Külpe Paris pastoral Pfister philosophy Pohier prayer problem professor psychiatry psychic psychoanalysis psychology of religion psychotherapy religious experience Relps Ricoeur roots of religion Schjelderup schon scientific second naiveté Seelsorge sermon sexual social spiritual Stählin symbols theologian theology theory tradition translation unserer Uppsala Vergote viel Vorstand Waterink Werner Gruehn Wikström wohl Wulff York Zürich
Popular passages
Page 19 - The habitus, a product of history, produces individual and collective practices - more history - in accordance with the schemes generated by history. It ensures the active presence of past experiences, which, deposited in each organism in the form of schemes of perception, thought and action, tend to guarantee the 'correctness' of practices and their constancy over time, more reliably than all formal rules and explicit norms
Page 19 - ... a system of lasting, transposable dispositions which, integrating past experiences, functions at every moment as a matrix of perceptions, appreciations, and actions...
References to this book
The Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism Peter C. Hill,William Paul Williamson Limited preview - 2005 |